Building a Village to Raise a Student
High School advisories help teachers and students forge relationships valuable to success in school, and in life.
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High School advisories help teachers and students forge relationships valuable to success in school, and in life.
Read MoreEditor’s Note: This is part of a series by School-Stories.org staff that explores New York City — home to the most segregated school district in America. For more, click here. MANHATTAN District 1 …
Read MoreEagle Academy 6th through 12th grade school in the South Bronx has the most skewed population of students in Tremont’s District 9: fewer English Language Learners and fewer children who qualify for free and reduced lunch than the average.
Read MoreFour schools in Brooklyn’s rapidly gentrifying District 13 enroll significantly more white students than their counterparts. Why is that happening?
Read MoreWith a month left in the legislative session, Gov. Andrew Cuomo is promoting a vote on a tax credit to help families in private schools. Many religious groups support the …
Read MoreCivil rights battles have taken to the sports fields in New York City Schools, where black and Hispanic students are twice as likely as their white and Asian classmates to attend high schools with very few, if any, sports opportunities available.
Read MoreBringing more girls into science and technology fields begins in the high school classroom. P-TECH early college high school in Brooklyn is pointing the way.
Read MoreOver at The Washington Post, Jay Matthews reviews Caleb Rossiter’s new book on grade inflation in the education system. Matthews writes: I share Rossiter’s view that such rule-bending is common …
Read MoreDavid Kohn over at the New York Times, shares his opinion on the ongoing trend of standardized testing, and pushing kids to start their formal education at an earlier age. …
Read MoreAs the Obama administration continues to roll outs his plan to eliminate tuition for community college students, columnist Jay Mathews remains skeptic of this initiative. My first conclusion, after reviewing …
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